Originally Posted by
neo_pop_71
Okay, I'll partially agree with Velognome, conversions are lame and dangerous! I don't fault young people for not having money for a proper frame but I've seen some ridiculously vicious crashes, even pile ups, because some idiot's rear wheel got pulled forward and out of the drop out on his road bike conversion. I also hate to see so many wonderful lugged frames butchered making a fix'aaa!
Oddly enough... bicycles like my 1955 Lenton were originally sold as fixed gear models with
road dropouts and not track ends.
It has nothing to do with the dropout but everything to do with the way the wheel is attached and torqued.
I have puts tens of thousands of miles on conversions and have yet to pull a wheel out of the drop out and I used to like racing people up steep grades and doing sprints where the power needed was well in excess of 1000 watts.